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Posted: 7/25/2014 1:20:54 AM EDT

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Yes they have them, it's just that they don't even reach the base elevation of your place in metro Denver.

Posted: 7/25/2014 1:20:57 AM EDT

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If you are single

consider a WY 10 would be a a CO 4

true story

Posted: 7/25/2014 1:21:08 AM EDT

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In Jackson you hear plenty of Mandarin from the tourists.

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Pictures don't do it justice. You must experience the wind, -20F+ winters, and the smoke from the summer forest fires to really know that it isn't for you.

Same goes for Montana, just come in the early summer and spend your money then leave.

Does anybody speak English?

Actually what I really wanna know is how often do you hear mandarin?

In Jackson you hear plenty of Mandarin from the tourists.

Here the tourists speak English and the most of the residents speak mandarin........

Posted: 7/25/2014 1:42:51 AM EDT

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That's some serious terrain compared to South Dakota.

Posted: 7/25/2014 1:54:34 AM EDT

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It was nice for about an hour. Same with Texas..

Then I just started getting sleepy

Posted: 7/25/2014 2:10:44 AM EDT

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I love Wyoming. You won't discourage me.

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Same here. I'd rather see that then urban sprawl full of stupid people, traffic and trash.

Posted: 7/25/2014 2:12:39 AM EDT

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It was nice for about an hour. Same with Texas..

Then I just started getting sleepy

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You mean sheepy or sleepy

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Posted: 7/25/2014 2:19:25 AM EDT

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Wyoming is just Mars with atmo and grass.

Posted: 7/25/2014 2:31:15 AM EDT

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Try Kansas.

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loneliest I have EVER felt in my life was driving across Wyoming. Lonely nearly to tears..

Try Kansas.

You have got to be shitting me.

Have you even been to WY? KS has nothing, I mean to tell you, NOTHING on the desolation that is WY.

KS... What... Maybe 40-50 miles between fuel stations?

Try going on some WY roads sometime. 40 miles between "ranch access only" and double that or more between some fuel.

Posted: 7/25/2014 2:33:56 AM EDT

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What makes it pretty is the lack of people!

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This. The last picture was the best.

Posted: 7/25/2014 2:42:32 AM EDT

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I'm sorry, but these two pictures are fucking beautiful.

For some reason "Wanted Dead Or Alive", and "Turn The Page" are going through my head now.

I LIKE empty. My dream house is surrounded by 1,000 miles of what you just showed. With no neighbors.

Posted: 7/25/2014 2:43:15 AM EDT

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Your photos remind me of Paisley OR

Posted: 7/25/2014 3:00:33 AM EDT

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just move to this area: eta: gotta think positive!

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That's in Montana.

The Wyoming tourism board strikes again!

Posted: 7/25/2014 3:01:07 AM EDT

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Quick, someone post pictures of Gillette to rescue this thread!

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Posted: 7/25/2014 3:08:29 AM EDT

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South Dakota is better.

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This man lies.

SD is just as bad if not worse than WY.

Posted: 7/25/2014 3:25:44 AM EDT

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Quick, someone post pictures of Gillette to rescue this thread!

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LOL

Posted: 7/25/2014 3:37:25 AM EDT

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In the winter, it's one of the most scary places to be when driving during a snow storm. I've never felt more alone than up on that road pushing snow with no tracks in either lane, and getting dark.

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I've had the feeling a time or two.

Posted: 7/25/2014 4:29:26 AM EDT

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OP's right. Wyoming sucks

It's a freaking train wreck

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This pic was taken last week

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Damn range maggots

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We have a huge super volcano that's a ticking time bomb

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Wildfires every summer and where are the fucking trees?

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Refineries that blow up!

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and right wing nut jobs that shoot scary assault rifles with shoulder thingies and 30 caliber clips

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Everyone move to Idaho

Posted: 7/25/2014 5:01:05 AM EDT

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Hey, Gillettes starkness has a beauty all it's own.
Until one of the mines overloads its cast shots and knocks the pictures off the wall.

While it was 100 degrees yesterday, it's 57 right now at 2:50 AM.
The winters in my 2 1/2 years of living have been alright, only had 1 week of the OH HELL NO! type of cold.

We have a couple of herds of antelope and mule deer in the area that wander around our house...which is pretty cool.
It's a unique place with a beauty all it's own, but not for pansies.

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Gillette is the reality, Cody and Jackson are the postcards. Evanston, Pinedale, Casper, it's all the same. Subdivisions so new they don't have a

bush. Hell on earth and no mistake.

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Where's the antelope and jackalope pictures???? I went to Gillette right out of high school in '82. Worked construction for awhile and then back to AZ. I still have not seen Jackson Hole/Cody area....

Gillette is the reality, Cody and Jackson are the postcards. Evanston, Pinedale, Casper, it's all the same. Subdivisions so new they don't have a

bush. Hell on earth and no mistake.

Posted: 7/25/2014 5:28:41 AM EDT

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Took this pic a few weeks ago

Posted: 7/25/2014 7:24:59 AM EDT

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I've driven all over SE Wyoming. Yes is is sparsly populated, but that's it's appeal. I could pull off the highway to streach my legs and not see another car for 1/2 hr and no noise except the wind through the sagebrush. I love it here and after being raised in So Cal then moving around for 20 years in the AF, I finally found where I belong. If you are the type that can hack it here WITHOUT trying to change it...we welcome you.

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I also was born and raised in SoCal. Joined the USAF in 1988, retired in-place here in Wyoming in 2011 after 22.5 years.

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Not Gilletter, Wamsutter is the place where it's at.

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F'ing A right...it's beautiful. Was just there a few hours ago. Left Cheyenne and drove down to Denver to get a load of diesel, back up to Wyoming and over to Wamsutter. Too bad I was only there for about 30mins making my delivery, it's such a hopping place where you just want to hang out for hours.

. Took a load over Wednesday, last night, and will more then likely have one tonight and Saturday. I usually run Wamsutter a few days each week.

Heading to the store in winter

A little 700yd range time at the Otto Road range west of Cheyenne.

Few semis taking a breather between Cheyenne and Laramie (I check the WYDOT page every 15 mins during the winter. It can make the difference of being stuck on top of Elk Mountain, or being nice and cozy in my warm bed back in Cheyenne)

Nice snow storm rolled through in May. Was glad I didn't have to work those days. Wouldn't have mattered...I-25 and I-80 were both shut down for most of my two days off. The guys who were working were doing a couple local loads and calling it good. No trucks were moving so the Cheyenne store was not selling any fuel. Birds were like "WTF, where'd the sun go"

Oh, and like another poster said earlier in the thread; the four seasons of Wyoming...Almost winter, winter, still winter, and road repair season. The dang road repair season is in full effect in the SE corner of the state. Half of the 50 miles between Cheyenne and Laramie is torn up and down to one lane. Then the other side of Laramie is torn up for about 12 miles. Let's not even get into the construction down in Colorado on I-25 between 9pm and 4am. Combine road construction and dumb ass Colorado drivers and you have very long delays because they don't know what "Right Lane Ends, Merge Left" means. To them it must mean haul ass up to the merge cones, then get all pissed off and try to force your way in and make everybody who merged a half mile back slow up to let your dumbass in.

Posted: 7/25/2014 7:40:55 AM EDT

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I miss my home very much!! I wish I could move back!

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:07:58 AM EDT

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Little range my son built. Only reason there is a tree is because there is a canal just to the right.

That fun-looking mountain up there with actual vegetation is in MT.

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:27:26 AM EDT

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We just camped in the Bighorns over by Ten Sleep. It's an amazing area for sure. Montana's still better though.

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We used to hunt on a ranch not too far from Ten Sleep.......down the Hazelton Road.

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:34:22 AM EDT

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Montana has no sales tax, and is much more beautiful.

but Montana has income tax

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:35:34 AM EDT

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I'm from north eastern Ohio.

Even your 'blah' pictures are better then here.

And don't get me started on lake effect snow.

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:36:35 AM EDT

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Yes they have them, it's just that they don't even reach the base elevation of your place in metro Denver.

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There are no mountains in North Carolina.

Yes they have them, it's just that they don't even reach the base elevation of your place in metro Denver.

They have some pretty hills, but mountains they ain't.

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:38:51 AM EDT

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I remarked to an old timer in his store in Cody about how pretty it was in Wyoming. He said "Yeah, it's pretty damn hot in the summer, pretty damn cold in the winter, and pretty damn hard to make a living here."

I've been all through Wyoming and there's a lot of lonely, desolate areas. Andrasiks's right, we ain't got no mountains here......but we got trees.

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:40:35 AM EDT

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I love Wyoming. You won't discourage me.

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Yes. And I grew up right next door to the "ugly side".

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:47:11 AM EDT

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Nope, definitely Alberta.

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That's in Montana.

The Wyoming tourism board strikes again!

Nope, definitely Alberta.

idiots.
that's clearly the Matterhorn.

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:52:58 AM EDT

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That's the Tetons. No way to see them from Montana.

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That's in Montana.

The Wyoming tourism board strikes again!

That's the Tetons. No way to see them from Montana.

Here is a few:

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on clear day you can see the Tetons from Yeallowstone ( just barely).

Posted: 7/25/2014 8:58:28 AM EDT

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Are those dead buffalo carcases out there?

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:00:29 AM EDT

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When I was a boy, I wanted to become a WY cattle rancher and even made a scrap book for a school project. One of the first trips through there (we were kids) we spent a day at Rushmore and then drove into WY and were looking for a place to camp. I remember my Dad running back to the car after talking to some other people by this lake and when he got into the car he brought in a swarm of misquitoes with him. There were black clouds of them around the car! I think we slept in the car that night.

Still one of the prettiest places in the world.

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:18:12 AM EDT

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Don't want to raise cows. Just want a nice house, with decent acreage, and have wife make good $$$ in academia.
I just need a decent paying IT/networking job.
And no urban yutes.

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I'm sure it's great! You can probably get a small ranch for whatever your house in Georgia is worth. Unlike Montana and it's overinflated prices.

You need roughly 1,000 acres in WY to support a single cow.

Don't want to raise cows. Just want a nice house, with decent acreage, and have wife make good $$$ in academia.
I just need a decent paying IT/networking job.
And no urban yutes.

Folks from outside Wyoming ought to read about the emmigration from Wyoming in the late 1800's and first decade or so of the 1900's. The main means of making a living are different now, but the climate ain't.

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:27:46 AM EDT

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My wife asked that we go the route we did instead of through Rawlins because this was the "prettier" route.

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There's a stretch north of Rock Springs that has no vegetation or much of anything else. It looks worse from an airplane that Google Earth.

My wife asked that we go the route we did instead of through Rawlins because this was the "prettier" route.

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I have relatives that grew up in Rawlins and moved back as adults. Both of them lived in Grand Junction or Montrose after living in Missouri for a couple of decades, then back to Wyoming.

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:37:39 AM EDT

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Montana has no sales tax, and is much more beautiful.

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Which is why we all go there to shop. Contrary to all the radio commercials telling us to spend our money at home.

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:43:23 AM EDT

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This is key

I never appreciated the west until I was stuck in the midwest that said even the midwest has some gems

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Not trying to piss in your pool, Boss. Enjoy what you have. I do.

This is key

I never appreciated the west until I was stuck in the midwest that said even the midwest has some gems

The countryside where I was raised. There's a river about 500 feet below my feet:

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:46:41 AM EDT

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Yeah I would be looking for this

As a southern boy I love trees especially

Home now is

Land Between the Lakes

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:47:48 AM EDT

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Spent two weeks annual training out there with the guard. Awesome country! I could just never figure out why everyone throws tires on the roofs of their mobile homes.

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:54:04 AM EDT

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Yes they have them, it's just that they don't even reach the base elevation of your place in metro Denver.

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There are no mountains in North Carolina.

Yes they have them, it's just that they don't even reach the base elevation of your place in metro Denver.

That's what at least 400 million years will do for you

. Hard to imagine they were once the size or larger in height to the Rocky's.....what they would do to the weather patterns if they still were.

Ice Age Appalachian Mtns

Posted: 7/25/2014 9:54:23 AM EDT

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looks like west texas and the panhandle.

I love west texas and the panhandle

Posted: 7/25/2014 10:00:31 AM EDT

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This thread is hilarious.

We need a New Hampshire Hates You- Don't Move Here campaign to advertise in the NE.

I will use you WY fellas as consultants.

Posted: 7/25/2014 10:16:27 AM EDT

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Funny. I made this video last weekend for exactly the same reason as OP created this thread. Consider too, that in my boring video, I edited out the most bland sections to keep it not so boring. lol

... It ain't all potato fields.

Posted: 7/25/2014 10:26:51 AM EDT

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Winter. You can keep it.

Posted: 7/25/2014 10:35:30 AM EDT

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I love the Wind River Canyon....................I hate those goddamned windmills.

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Wind River country is home. I love it also.

Posted: 7/25/2014 10:37:00 AM EDT

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What are the people like? Are they great neighbors who will help others when they are in need?

Decent folks who don't assault others just for the fun of it.

In other words....real Americans.

Compare those pictures with pictures from Detroit, parts of Chicago, New Jersey and so on.

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They're generally great folks. Just don't get cross ways of them.

Posted: 7/25/2014 10:39:46 AM EDT

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Long ago I was in Wyoming. In winter.

Damn it was Cold.

gd

Posted: 7/25/2014 10:39:58 AM EDT

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Notice the lack of grass.... It's hot, and dry

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Inside the Big Horn Basin. We went the western route that skirts the mountains, so there is more hills, and grass.

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Getting closer to Cody. The desert landscape goes right up till the real mountains. These are just foothills.

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Sorry, that's all I have for now. Come fall and winter I'm sure several members can post memorable photos of what Wyoming is like with a cold, and snow.

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Love that stretch between Casper, and Shoshone. You can take a nap while your driving it! No, seriously, thats when I start getting excited. Getting closer to home!